New research suggests that bacteria containing purple pigments could be the key to locating extraterrestrial life. On Earth, the dominant colour signal for life is green, due to bacteria and ...

Purple bacteria also known as proteobacteria are phototrophic, capable of producing their own food via photosynthesis. They are pigmented with bacteriochlorophyll, together with various carotenoids, ...

Realizing her mistake, Grosser reinoculated the purple bacteria and grew the plate again at room temperature until the purple violacein pigment appeared. With a PhD in Genetics and Genomics, Niki ...

She had struck purple. Her local watershed turned out to be home ... on a two-and-a-half-week-long adventure to hunt for natural dyes, including pigment-producing bacteria, to make carpet dyeing safer ...